Digital Art staged at Aotea Centre

Digital Art staged at Aotea Centre

11 May 2012

Digital Art Live exhibition Acute Self opens next week, with a special event planned to coincide with creative conference Semi-Permanent.

The exhibition is created by Interrupt Collective and is based on Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending Staircase, investigating how a person occupies space as they move. The viewer’s movement generates a three-dimensional geometric shape. This shape then changes its perspective as you continue to move from side to side. The viewer can experience the virtual space they have created through their movement.

“Acute Self explores the concept of creating volume through deconstructing our movements. The aim of the exercise is to generate awareness of our own existence within space, a feedback loop of our own movement through space. However Acute Self is so playful that all that theory washes away once you start making cool looking shapes on the screen!” said Interrupt Collective’s Johann Nortje.

“Digital Art Live provides a great opportunity for us to develop and present our work in a public space. We like that it is a free, permanent and rotating exhibition which enables people to learn about interactive digital art as their experience grows.”

“We’re really delighted to be able to link in with Semi-Permanent to present Acute Self to the creative community,” said Digital Art Live Co-ordinator Nolwenn Hugain-Lacire.

“It’s a year since we launched Digital Art Live and it’s great seeing people interact with the artworks, whether they’ve visited the Aotea Centre especially or are there for another event.”

Exhibition details:
Acute Self
By Interrupt Collective
15 May –22 June
Digital Art Live
Level 2, Aotea Centre
Free
Opening Event Friday 18 May, 6-8pm
With a live dance performance by Lydia Zanetti from 7 pm
The exhibition is made possible through the support of Creative New Zealand.

About Interrupt Collective
Interrupt Collective is a collective of digital-media artists, interaction designers, live video performers and sonic artists working across a range of live performance projects and installations. The binding principle of the collective is to generate experimental work that explores the boundaries between architecture, video, performance, sound and interaction. Recently the members of Interrupt have been involved in Performance Arcade 2012, StageSpace 2011, WGTN LUX 2011, The Performance Arcade 2011, Auckland Festival of Arts, Wellington International Arts Festival, and Tiger Translate. Interrupt is based in Wellington, includes Johann Nortje, Harry Silver, Stuart Foster, Angus Woodhams and works in collaboration with Ben Jack.

About Digital Art Live
CoLab (AUT University’s creative technologies research centre) and THE EDGE (Auckland’s centre for national and international performing arts and entertainment) work collaboratively to present Digital Art Live, an exciting initiative to showcase digital and interactive visual art in an interactive space. Digital Art Live is a permanent exhibition space in the Aotea Centre’s BNZ Foyer.

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